20:34-36. The children of the resurrection thus include all who attain unto that world, which, consequently, the wicked do not obtain, and of which the righteous dead and the living saints are made equal subjects, according to Paul’s “mystery:” “We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed,” _i.e._, to the same incorruptible state to which the dead are raised, (1 Cor. 15:50-54); so that all the righteous will alike “bear the image of the heavenly” (v. 49) when they “shall be caught up together” (1 Thess. 4:16) “to meet the Lord in the air.” The resurrection state is that to which the ancients looked for the restoration of Israel. Rabbi Eliezer the great, supposed to have lived just after the second temple was built, applied Hosea 14:8 to the pious Jews, who seemed likely to die without seeing the glory of Israel, saying: “As I live, saith Jehovah, I will raise you up, in the resurrection of the dead; and I will gather you with all Israel.” The Sadducees are reported to have asked Rabbi Gamaliel, the preceptor of Paul, whence he would prove that God would raise the dead, who quoted Deut. 9:21: “Which land the Lord sware that he would give to your _fathers_.” He argued, as Abraham, Isaac and Jacob had it not, and as God cannot lie, that they must be raised from the dead to inherit it. Rabbi Simai, though of later date, argues the same from Ex. 6:4, insisting that the law asserts in this place the resurrection from the dead, when it said: “And also I have established my covenant with them, to give them the Canaan;” for, he adds, “it is not said to _you_, but to them.” Mennasseh Ben Israel says: “It is plain that Abraham and the rest of the patriarchs did not possess that land; it follows, therefore, that they must be raised in order to enjoy the promised good, as otherwise the promises of God would be vain and false.”—_De Resurrec. Mort., L. i., c. 1. § 4._ Rabbi Saahias Gaion, commenting on Dan. 12:2, says: “This is the resuscitation of the dead Israel, whose lot is eternal life, and those who shall not awake are the forsakers of Jehovah.” “In the world to come,” says the Sahar, fol. 81, “the blessed God will vivify the dead and raise them from their dust, so that they shall be no more an earthly structure.”